- United States
- Colo.
- Letter
Perform your Constitutional duty - remove Trump from office
To: Sen. Bennet, Rep. Pettersen, Sen. Hickenlooper
From: A verified voter in Lakewood, CO
February 24
Perform your Constitutional duty. Remove Trump from office so you protect our freedom. Congress is permitting Trump to take over the power of Congress. It is grossly unconstitutional. Trump’s concept that he can alter laws by refusing to fund them, so-called impoundment, is absolutely straight up unconstitutional. And it’s illegal. Trump could have used his legitimate constitutional authority but instead, with the aid of Elon Musk, has consistently violated the Constitution and willingly broken laws. Courts move too slowly to rein Trump in. Perform your constitutional duty. Remove Trump from office. The reason the framers designed our Constitution the way they did was that they were afraid of concentrated power. They had just fought a brutal eight-year war with a king. They didn’t want a king. They wanted a constitutional republic, where power was divided between the Congress and the president and the courts. And you members of Congress are collapsing that structure. How is this happening? This is happening because Congress gave it up! James Madison thought you would fight for your congressional power, but no. Right now you are all just sitting back and watching it happen. This is the most serious assault on our Constitution in the history of this country. It's the most serious assault on the very structure of our Constitution, which is designed to protect our freedoms and liberty, in the history of this country. It is a constitutional crisis. Many of your colleagues don't want to buck the President and want to let the courts take care of it. That's a copout. It's your responsibility to protect the Constitution. That's what you swore to when you entered Congress. What's it going to take for Congress to wake up to what's going on here? Is it going to be too late? Is it going to be when the President has secreted all this power and the Congress is an afterthought? What's it going to take? This a constitutional crisis, and you’ve got to respond to it. Congress needs to stand up and say, “No, no, we don't do it this way. We don't do it this way. We do things constitutionally. That's what the framers intended. They didn't intend to have an efficient dictatorship, and that's what we're headed for. We’ve got to wake up, protect this institution, but much more importantly protect the people of the United States of America.”
Write to Michael F. Bennet or any of your elected officials
Resistbot is a chatbot that delivers your texts to your elected officials by email, fax, or postal mail. Tap above to give it a try or learn more here!